There are good and bad qualities in every tabletop game, every beer, every woman, and every piece of pizza. For each of them, I am likely to lean towards celebrating the good and passing over most of the bad, which is one reason I stay away from the tabletop game review arena and focus on strategy. But with Avalon, even if I was a slandering, pessimistic cynic, I could not help but shower it in praise, because it is FANTASTIC! This has become my unquestionable favorite game to play at any game night, no matter how well I know the group.